Information and opinions on health from Sandy at HealthCentral.com. HealthCentral.com is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/248242/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/248242/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/248242/index http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/248242/67567/marriage-body Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:23:03 -0400 Sandy The Marriage of Body and Mind      Shall I compare thee to a willing mate? Our weddedness not heralded by choice, our marriage arranged by God or by ill fate, our intercourse a second to divorce. I dote on you with potions and health food. You plead, for years, I lighten up and dance. You gift me with a migraine, I you a gloomy mood, our merry coupling never stood a chance.  It's true I view the body as a... http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/248242/67567/marriage-body http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/248242/67564/letter-body Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:18:49 -0400 Sandy LETTER TO MY BODY      To think I woo you with bushels of fresh organic greens: Swiss chard, kale, beet leaf; how I encourage equanimity with lentil, split pea, black bean, and foster balance with whole grains:  quinoa, spelt, kamut, tempeh; neither too yang nor too yin, rice cake, almond soy, forsaking chocolate, donuts, coffee, hydrogenated fats   all to no avail.  Your overchargd neurons, tense... http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/248242/67564/letter-body http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/248242/67562/migraine Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:04:17 -0400 Sandy MIGRAINE     Just beyond the bolted door beyond the shut-up wooden world, the live earth spins and grasses grow.   Even some old trotters bolt and gambol, Pegasus with legs of a colt, into meadow and sky, past insult.   When ease is a cruel man's joke, the body, its pulse and synapses, a ghoulish yoke, and the ground, fault beneath a broken   leg, my eyes mirror the eyes of Pegasus, a light coiled and... http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/248242/67562/migraine